Thanks a lot for providing all these information! Was there a major change in article creation policy in early 2007?
Can anonymous users create new pages before then? Best, Haifeng Zhang ________________________________ From: Wiki-research-l <[email protected]> on behalf of Su-Laine Brodsky <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2019 2:44:24 AM To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] Question on article creation policy Hi Haifeng, Re : A more general question is: where to find information about policy changes, e.g., article creation, in Wikipedia? The Wikipedia Signpost usually covers major policy changes like this one (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost) As Kerry pointed out though, more subtle policy changes happen without much publicity. If changes are contentious enough, they might appear in an RfC or The Village Pump, so those are some other areas to look. Cheers, Su-Laine Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 9, 2019, at 11:48 AM, Haifeng Zhang <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear folks, > > I'm checking the Article Creation page > (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_creation), and it says: > > > The ability to create articles directly in mainspace is > restricted<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ACPERM> to autoconfirmed > users, though non-confirmed users and non-registered users can submit a > proposed article through the Articles for > Creation<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_creation> > process, where it will be reviewed and considered for publication. > > > Anyone knows when the restriction (e.g., registered and auto-confirmed) > become effective? I tracked the past revisions of the page but found no clue. > A more general question is: where to find information about policy changes, > e.g., article creation, in Wikipedia? > > > Thanks, > > Haifeng > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
